Word: instrumentalized
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...Fuel for Fire,” from Ward’s last album, “Transistor Radio.” The song’s swelling lonesomeness was amplified by Ward’s plaintive harmonica playing; in devoting an entire verse to the instrument, he showed off a formidable instrumental talent that added a fresh layer to Ward’s antiqued radio-sentimentalism. “Helicopter,” from the quieter “Transfiguration of Vincent,” also benefited from some harp revisionism...
AHMADINEJAD: Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. We don't have any problems with Pakistan or India. Actually they are friends of Iran, and throughout history they have been friends. The Zionist regime is not capable of using nuclear weapons. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. Bombs are of little use today. We need logic...
...economic means or lifestyle inadequacies. The demographics of the women who seek abortions seem to reinforce this—21 percent are teenagers, and well over half of unwed pregnant women will opt for an abortion. These figures should make clear that abortions are used primarily as an instrument of socioeconomic preservation—over one fifth of abortion-seekers, after all, are mere children who cannot support themselves independently, and many others lack a partner with whom to build an ideal family environment. It seems that in these cases, the ethical choice is not, in fact, to force these...
...Jack Burden (Jude Law), scion of the now enervated Louisiana ruling class, who, as a newspaper reporter and then as a gubernatorial lackey, is both the author's surrogate and the audience's--a man who wants to be an ironic observer of events but irresistibly becomes the instrument for destroying his surrogate father and, symbolically, the values of his own class...
...Bear Lake, California. Among his fans, the easygoing art director counted high-profile artists, including Frank Sinatra, who let Thrasher title his 1973 comeback LP, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. DIED. Bismillah Khan, 90, ascetic Indian musician whose name became synonymous with the shehnai, the oboe-like instrument he played for audiences worldwide over a seven-decade career; in Varanasi. A Muslim who performed at countless Hindu ceremonies, Khan was seen as a symbol of Indian inter-religious unity and secularism. He played at the young country's first Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor...